We have written extensively about the research on marijuana, the regulation, the wrangling in the legislature, cooking with marijuana and growing it. The new year will bring all angles together in a way that is challenging and exciting for us. We plan to do what we do with any major story: throw our best muscle, creative minds and ingenuity at the project.

It’s not surprising that the news we would be hiring an editor to oversee the project swirled around the journalism and marijuana community. Sorry, folks, we’re appointing someone from our newsroom to head the project. (The Post staffer who tweeted the opening without designating it as an internal hire will soon be busy replying to the resumes that are flooding my inbox.) That doesn’t mean we won’t be looking for writers, bloggers and others to contribute.

We’re going to have some fun – with a mix of news, entertainment and culture stories. Say what you want about the newspaper industry, but The Post is the most powerful news organization in the region. We know how to cover big stories. And with pot, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Talking about pot..writing about pot..and telling everyone in the Denver office about the best strains..He Could Be The In Office Go To Guy For Quick hookup Of Ur Daily medicine..Yea That Should Be Done In Every office..

The Denver Post is the most powerful news organization in the region, you say??? OMG – – are we ever doomed!! The Post is one of the weakest news organizations I’ve ever encountered and you say they are the best in the region? What kind of region do we have??

and if they DO need someone special – GET someone special – someone who brings expertise, not just some guy out of the newsroom. The reporting on cannabis issues by the DP has been uninformed and bordering on hysterical at best.

As long as you have the assignment dig as far back in the historical record of man’s relationship with the cannabis and hemp plants that you can. I think you may discover something you may not have known before.

“Internal” Hire. really? Which one of you morons is qualified? All I have seen from the DP is more of “the sky is falling” attitude. One suggestion though…you should make this book mandatory reading for the person hired, as it is probably the most thorough and well-researched books on the subject. Best of all – It’s FREE!! (Although Jeanie Herer could use a donation to keep her husband’s work available to all. “The Emporor Wears No Clothes” The Book « JackHerer.com

For starters, it would be a public service if you “suppress” pictures of a H-ot B-urning O-verdose M-onoxide joint on articles like this and instead show a Harm Reduction Utensil such as a vaporizer or a long-stemmed one-hitter.

I hope he adheres to the understanding that the term “pot” means a functional container, and when used in reference to a psychoactive substance it is denigratory and therefore should be avoided in a professional publication. Denver Post, I have been waiting for you to figure that one out. One of these days, DP, any time now.

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